AFFAIRS IN RUSSIA.

Gisborne Times, Volume XVII, Issue 1368, 1 February 1905, Page 2

AFFAIRS IN RUSSIA.

G.ORKiY TO BE HANDED OiVER. TO EXECUTIONER. #

JB Z Electric .Telegraph—Per Press ' Association— Copyright. ■ / ’ BERLIN,' January 30. Reports received at Berlin 'state tiiat General TrepofY, chief of police, intends) to hand Gorky and four otfen leaders to the public exefutioner. The Berlin Tagoblatt to all littcrati, artists, and s .Jjstsi'-’V? Germany to save Gorky/ 'the Lokalanzei ge,r_jkp6rts that 'a!P mutiny; of the crews detains tho squadron, which it was proposed to despatch to join the Baltic fleets J -at I.itau. •

ST. PETERSBURG, Jan. 30. Pickets are placed twenty yards apart at the Summer Palace Park. Warsaw is proclaimed to he in ~a A state requiring increased All shops have been closedT -aiid;'the situation is growing more serious. A bomb explosion injured many police at Cyerstoqhown, Poland, a % the outcome of their brutal ill-treat-ment of workmen. The Holy Synod adjures Orthodox Christians to support .the Czar and clergy, since without orthodoxy ;ths .autocracy' in Russia is ruined. It declares that foreign enemies contributed considerable sums to create a civil war and cause the strikes,*, preventing the deslpaboh of reinforcerments and supplies to the- Far East.; It denounces Father Ga'p,on as a criminal, impudent priest,' who is~now before the Ecclesiastical Court for breaking his vows and forcibly removing from a chapiter sacred relics in order to deceive the workmen.

The ■ Extraordinary Council of prominent advisers of Tsarkoeslo advise the Czar to adhere to his reform, programme already announced. While the chief of police states all is quiet at W’axsaw, other accounts inidicate that wholesale pillaging is going on. Many large shops are being sacked, also the State vodka and gunsmiths’ shops. , .

Numerous collisions between the strikers and Cossacks take place, the . Cossacks being especially brutal. Anti-English placards, signed by the Governor, have been posted at Libau, similar to those at Moscow. 5Sir Charles Hardinge has protested against this, as jeopardising friendly relations between England and Russia.

Count Lamsdorfi instructed their Moscow authorities to remove all traces of the placards. General Trepoff summoned the cor-

respondents of French • newspapers, and forbade them to send scare telegrams.

The St. Petersburg Press has hem reduced to official -information.

LONDON, January 30. The Times’ St, Petersburg correspondent believes that only three hundred were killed on Sunday, and perhaps a thousand were wounded, because in a majority of eases the troops Bred high, MOSCOW STRIKERS RESUME WORK. DISTURBANCES AT RIGA. By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright Received 11.51 p.m., Jan 31. St. Petersburg, Jan SI. OwiDg to the masters' concessions most of the Moscow strikers have resumed. Disturbances continue at Riga and Koona. There were seventy casualties at Riga on Saturday. EXCESSES AT WARSAW. SOLDIERS SHOOTING DOWN CHILDREN. By Telegraph—Press Assoaiation—Copyright Received 9.45 p.m., Jan 31. St. Petersburg, Jan. 31. Warsaw, Lodz, and Petrifioff are in a state of siege. The schools have been closed at War* saw, where street fighting continues. The troops are committing isolated excesses, shooting several children andinnocent people. A noticeable fact is that many girls are mingling with the rioters.

A remarkable address was adopted almost unanimously by the Provincial Assembly at Kharkoff, consisting of marshals of nobility, noblemen, and numbers of zemstvos. It was forwarded to the Czar, demanding in exceptionally bold language the establishment of representative government and appealing to the Czar to build up an empire of free citizens, possessing full rights, and declaring that the bureaucracy has forfeited the country’s confidence, FATHER GAPON’S ALLEGED RETRACTION. By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright Received 9.45 p.m., Jan 31. St. Petersburg, Jan. 31. A proclamation purporting to be signed by Father Gapon has been circulated at St. Petersburg, advising workmen to resume work and avoid provokiDg the authorities, since an imntediate revolt would result in terrible disaster and useless sacrifice of life. Count Lamsdorff reprimanded Rudnoff, an ". ° r^ere( X the removal of the placards at Libau and elsewhere. He direoted the Governors of the various districts to avoid such incidents. He expressed regret at the unfortunate attaoka on the Consuls at Warsaw, and directed strict enquiry into the incident. The military attache to the British Embassy at St. Petersburg has been sent to Warsaw to enquire into the outrage on the Consuls. .

HELP FOR STRIKERS. AN APPEAL TO.ENGLAND, By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright Received 9.45 p.m., Jan 31. London, Jan. 31. Masters of Balliol, Dr Clifford Scott, Holland, Meredith, Frederick, Pollock, opence, Watson and other prominent men appeal for funds to relieve the Russian strikers who are facing want and death in the hope of winning liberty. • • of Russian reformers has “™ ed English financial aid. The Daily iU a‘ in eu ounces it as a mischievous appeal which, it declares, will help to justify the Engl lat d 3 ' un^QUn^ accusation against